Rotten
Rather mild and scattershot in its satiric marksmanship...
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Serial Mom
Every mom wants to be wanted, but not for murder!
1994 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
John Waters
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Serial Mom
Overview
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Director and cast
- John Waters Director
- Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin
- Sam Waterston as Eugene Sutphin
- Ricki Lake as Misty Sutphin
- Matthew Lillard as Chip Sutphin
- Scott Morgan as Detective Pike
- Walt MacPherson as Detective Gracey
- Justin Whalin as Scotty
- Patricia Dunnock as Birdie
- Lonnie Horsey as Carl
- Mink Stole as Dottie Hinkle
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An uproariously funny, marvellously malicious performance from Turner.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
The murders are multiple but the joke is strictly one-note.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Too realistically gory to really be funny.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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